How the helminth of malice squirms! A gangly parasitic worm, it knocks us out of orbit and turns us hard-hearted. We glide in our inchoate masks, our faces smile but inside we bask in misery. Searching for company, we find the imperative of ignominy; it puts us in the public lens and misery’s company has […]
Tag: Worms
Saturday morning whimsy
Ducks and Worms A clown-like shelduck With bright red beak Manoeuvres a line Of black-capped ducklings Across the mud flats And past the sedge To the water’s edge Where they stamp In the shallows Chasing shadows And stirring up worms That wriggle and squirm © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on http://www.wildfowl-photography.co.uk
writing in north norfolk 